* The idea for this story came from a movie I watched but that was about this rich girl who offered a troubadour a ‘living’ by posing as her fiance. They also had friends who objected to their connection and my version centers on these two.

* Magsingal in Ilocos Sur is where my paternal grandfather hails from. I’d been there, too, quite a number of times so when I described the farm, I was thinking of my relatives’ place.